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Empire or Republic?: American Global Power and Domestic Decay
James F. Petras,Morris Morley +1 more
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In this article, the authors argue that the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations have all focused on global leadership to the detriment of pressing social, economic and political problems at home, and make the necessary, but much overlooked, link between our nation's international policies and the domestic situation.Abstract:
Empire or Republic? makes the necessary, but much overlooked, link between our nation's international policies and the domestic situation. The authors contend that the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations have all focused on global leadership to the detriment of pressing social, economic and political problems at home.read more
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Hegel and Marx: After the Fall of Communism
TL;DR: In this paper, Marx's relationship with Hegel and his Dialectics of Youth and Maturity are discussed. But the focus is on the relationship between the two, and not the relation between them as discussed in this paper.
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The reconquest of Central America: Latin American studies and the transition to democracy, 1979-1990
TL;DR: For the last ten years of the cold war Central America was the focus of Washington's almost constant attention as mentioned in this paper, and it is easy to forget that post-cold war crises outside of the Americas occupy the front pages of North American newspapers and the top of the evening news.
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Culture-centric pre-emptive counterinsurgency and US Africa Command: assessing the role of the US social sciences in US military engagements in Africa
Horace Campbell,Amber Murrey +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the implications of the reinvigorated and expanding relationship between social science research and US military strategy, assessing the implication of US Africa Command strategies for preventive counterinsurgency.
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Globalization, soft power and the challenge of Hollywood
Richard de Zoysa,Otto Newman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the challenges of Hollywood and globalization, soft power, and the challenge of Hollywood in the context of globalization and soft power in the digital age.
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Two Generations, Two Interventions in One of the World's Most-Failed States: The United States, Kenya and Ethiopia in Somalia
TL;DR: This paper argued that military interventions that are ostensibly peacekeeping in nature can be inherently inadequate because "self-interest works against the interests of the collective" (Bobrow and Boyer, 1997: 726).